from "House of the Dead" by Ariel Childers

from "House of the Dead"

by Ariel Childers

I didn't expect it to rise before me

through mists of exiled memories

in the twilight of a waning double moon.

That rare time when rebirth has drowned

and the neap tides of a soul

sink double heavy

in twin salt water floods

few seek this house

banked on the silent Styx a

nd though some claim it to be house

like any other

there are no living rooms.